Kentrosaurus Was a Stegosaur with Plates and Spikes along Its Body
So named in Greek as the “spiked lizard,” the Kentrosaurus (pronounced ken-tro-SOAR-us) lives up to its name by featuring some startlingly sharp spikey protrusions as well as some hard, flat plates from its body. This dinosaur was strictly a herbivore that moved around slowly through its Late Jurassic … [Read more...]

Stegosaurus is a Stegosaurid from the Late Jurassic Era
Stegosaurus, pronounced STEG-o-SAWR-us, was named by Othniel Marsh in 1877. The name means “roof lizard” or “plated lizard” after the distinctive plates sticking out of it's back. It is an armored stegosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic era about 150 to 155 million years ago. Specimens of Stegosaurus … [Read more...]